I started to download this movie because I was going to Vietnam before, and it took a long time to download it until we came back from Vietnam. Later, I occasionally flipped through the movie inventory and planned to watch it, but it was always put on hold for various reasons. If it weren't for a Weibo last night, and the "If You Are the One 2" that I didn't see, I don't know when it would be buried in the movie collection.
It has been nearly a year since I came back from Vietnam, and some memories are far away, but within 100 minutes of watching the film, the rich Vietnamese style came again. For the first 40 minutes, I always thought I was shooting in Hanoi, where the streets, houses, window frames, motorbikes, tricycles, women with hats carrying the burdens to sell along the street, and snacks sitting on the side of the road. ...This is the picture I passed by every day in Hanoi for four or five days, but I was a little hesitant, because I couldn't see the familiar old street, and there was no "Second District" in Hanoi in my memory, and I couldn't see the scene of Hoan Kiem Lake. , until I heard the mention of the floating market, I suddenly realized that it was Saigon.
That was Saigon more than ten years before I went.
More than a decade later, Saigon, like many cities we have seen in China, is filled with luxury cars, French restaurants, skyscrapers, parksons, star hotels, boutiques and wide streets. The rapid development of the city has rapidly changed the original appearance of the city. On the contrary, although Hanoi in North Vietnam is the capital, it retains a very civic Vietnamese style due to its underdeveloped economy.
Sometimes the economy and style are indeed very contradictory.
In the three seasons of Love, the tricycle drivers looked up at the HOTEL and guessed the life inside. For them, it was an unattainable dream, and in reality, a comfortable bed was the biggest luxury. Saigon is now rich in material and developing rapidly. People in cities benefit from industry and tourism, and industry and tourism gradually change the living traditions of people in a country.
Of course it is easy for us to choose. For example, I choose to love Hanoi, because there, I feel that I have entered a completely different life.
Staying in a five-star hotel and watching the traffic on the road, eating a French feast and blowing strong air-conditioning, passing by one beautified sight after another in the city, is always just passing by, not as direct and profound as watching a movie.
But what about the locals? It is not so easy to tell which is better and which is worse. Nor do we have the right to ask them to perpetually struggle in order to preserve our curiosity.
This is an unresolved contradiction. Every time I go to a place, I will be entangled by such contradictions. Even so, when they walked in, they preferred to keep their original life as much as possible. It seemed that that was the point of going to another place. Otherwise, it was like walking into Saigon. Surrounded by banks and hotels, I immediately entered. Heatstroke and anorexia - even though it's the most air-conditioned and gourmet city in the country.
Look, what a cruel traveler. What a cruel anticipation traveler.
Saigon in the movie is like Hanoi in 2010. My memory of Hanoi was suddenly awakened.
Including the Vietnamese cadence, like singing.
In this way, I watched this light movie in a familiar scene and atmosphere.
Three seasons, three parallel stories. The posters in Hong Kong are described as "Girls and Poets, Prostitutes and Coachmen, American Army and Orphans". Concise and clear, it is such a three-pair relationship.
In comparison, the girl and the poet are more like a poetic scene of Vietnam. The white lotus flower, the ignorant girl, the dying poet, Ao Dai swaying step by step, graceful figure and singing, seems more like an ancient Chinese drama. , or a light ink painting.
The ink dripped into the pond and slowly dipped.
In Hanoi, I saw a lot of people selling like girls wearing hats and carrying burdens. Maybe it's not the season of white lotus flowers. There are all kinds of flowers and fresh fruits in the burdens. No white lotus was seen. So it was reflected in the bright sunlight and brightly colored walls, and because it was approaching the Chinese New Year, it showed a completely different liveliness from hers.
I have never seen Vietnam like ink painting.
The prostitute and the coachman are one of the warmest love stories. They are probably all famous actors in Vietnam (guess), completely different from the Vietnamese in my impression, especially the male protagonist as a tricycle driver, who loves to read and has excellent work ability (riding a tricycle), even if he has a handsome picture (relatively) and fair (also relatively) face. This is completely an ideal love, but it also brings a touch of warmth to the people at the bottom - for Vietnam, it may be said to bring a touch of coolness.
Take off the gorgeous and fashionable dress, put on Ao Dai, the skirt is fluttering, and return to the purest time in your heart.
GIs and Orphans. It is a story of loss and search. Nearly old, the GI returns to Vietnam to find his lost daughter; the orphan loses the box he needs to live on.
In the long rainy night, the two were desperate and tangled. But after all, he is a child, and he will still be attracted by movies, cartoons and food on the way to find; the American old man is aimless and finally desperate, the night before he leaves, at the lively farewell reception, surrounded by happy women, he is far away. Seeing the other end of the table from a distance, the long-lost daughter.
I saw him gradually, gradually contorted his face, and finally covered his eyes with his hands and cried. The camera is facing him from a distance, that is his only expression in the movie so far, and it touched my heart.
More than either of the previous 2 stories.
They went back to the restaurant where he met her mother when he was young, it was a bar, and she smiled at the white lotus flower her father gave her, and he told her a long story.
There is no hatred and no conflict.
Light, long.
This is also the tone of this film, leaving a little melancholy, but also endless warmth and coolness.
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